Messenia.,Mothone
Julia Domna. Augusta 193-217 CE
Æ 22mm, 4,50g
Draped bust right /
Athena standing right, holding spear and patera; shield at side.
BMC 2; BCD Peloponnesos –; SNG Copenhagen 539
Mothone was a famed city in antiquity. It was front and center during the Second Messenianic War, when Pylos and Mothone were the last strongholds against Sparta. After the war it was given to residents of Nauplia.
During the Peloponnesian War, Athens attempted to take Mothone, but were repulsed by Sparta.
Messenia, Mothone
Geta, as Caesar, 198-209 CE
Bronze, 23mm, 3.47g, 11h
[ΛOΥ CEΠ ΓETAC K] or similar. Draped and cuirassed bust of Geta to right.
Rev: M[OΘΩNAIΩN] Asklepios standing to right
BCD Peloponnesos 813.3. NCP p. 69, 4. Classical Numismatic Group MBS 81, 20 May 2009, 2828 (same dies)
Messenia, Mothone
Caracalla, Augustus
Ca 198-208 CE
Assarion Bronze, 21mm, 4.02g, 5h
M AYPH ANTΩNINOC Laureate, draped and cuirassed bust of Caracalla to right, seen from behind.
Rev: ΜΟΘΩ-[ΝΑΙΩΝ] Athena standing facing, head to left, holding phiale in her outstretched right hand and spear with her left.
BCD Peloponnesos -. BCD Peloponnesos II 2824 (same obverse die). BMC -. Cf. NCP p. 68, 2 (type unrecorded for Caracalla). SNG Copenhagen –
431 BCE
Athens attempts to take Mothone, but is repulsed by Brasidas.